Hi ,
I have a few problems configuring JDO2 with castor 0.9.6.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I tried to initialize JDO2 in my code as
snippet of database-conf xml
<jdo-conf>
<database name="pcpgoJdo" engine="oracle">
<jndi name="java:/comp/env/jdbc/myoracle"/>
<mapping href="resources/mapping.xml" />
</database>
<transaction-demarcation mode="local" />
</jdo-conf>
And the code looks like
JDO2.loadConfiguration(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(DATABASE_FILE
_NAME).toString());
JDO2 jdo = JDO2.createInstance(jdoDatabaseName);
InitialContext initialContext = new InitialContext();
initialContext.bind(jdoJndiName, jdo);
db.begin();
Map cptCodes = LoadDB.loadCPTCodes(db);
db.commit();
// works fine until here
when I do a
initialContext.lookup(jdoJndiName);
it gives the following exception
java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class javax.naming.spi.NamingManager can
not access a member of class org.exolab.castor.jdo.JDO2 with modifiers
"private"
at sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:57)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:302)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
at
javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectFactoryFromReference(NamingManager.j
ava:146)
at
javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:299)
at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:791)
at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:151)
at
org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.lookup(SelectorContext.java:136)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
at
com.PCPgo.prm.web.database.PcpgoServlet.LoadJdoinContext(PcpgoServlet.java:2
48)
Am I missing something here ?
Thanks
Vijay
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Joachim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [castor-user] Transaction locks and muti threaded access
Hi Vijay,
I know that Gregory Block (another castor commiter) is using castor in a
high-volume application. Even if I would call my appliaction a low-volume
one, I also had to resolve some locking problems that I could track down to
negligences at backgroud threads of my application. There are also some
performance bottlenecks we are aware of and are working to solve them at our
next refactoring steps at castor. For some of them we have working patches
or workarounds available (will come to them later).
I'll start with some general suggestions that you should have a look at.
Please don't feel upset if some are really primitive but there may be users
listening that are not aware of them.
1. Switch to version 0.9.6 of castor as we have fixed some bugs that may
cause some of your problems.
2. Initialize your JDO or JDO2 (will be renamed to JDOManager at next
release) instance once and reuse it all over your application. Don't
reuse the Database instances.
3. Use a Datasource instead of a Driver configuration as they enable
connection pooling which gives you a great performance improvement.
4. Always commit or rollback your transactions and close your Database
instances properly also in fail situations as suggested by Nick previously.
5. Keep your transactions as short as possible. If you have an open
transaction that holds a write lock on an object no other transaction
can get a write lock on the same object which will lead to a
LockNotGrantedException.
6. Query or load your objects read only whenever possible. Even if
castor creates a lock on them this does not prevent other threads from
reading or writing them. Read only queries are also about 7 times faster
compared with default shared mode.
7. If there is a possibility you should prefer db.load(Class, object)
over db.execute(String). I suggest that as db.load() first tries to load
the requested object from cache and only retrieves it from database when
it is not availble there. When executing queries with db.execute() the
object will always be loaded from database without looking at the cache.
You may gain a improvement by a factor of 10 and more when changing from
db.execute() to db.load().
I hope above suggestions help you to resolve the problems you have. If
you still need more performance there are 2 areas of improvement that
are more difficult to resolve.
a. If you have a look at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1085
where a patch to TransactionContext is attached that improves read/write
performance with a factor of 3. Even if the patch passes all tests of
castor test framework it requires more testing before we will integrate
it in our next major release. As stated in the comment Gregory will use
the patch in his production environment sooon.
b. I will attache a test that shows how read only performance can be
improved to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-732 this evening.
Hope I could help you with that information.
Regards
Ralf
Vijayanand Sukumar schrieb:
> All,
>
> Nick, Thanks for your explanation. We are using 0.9.5.3 .
>
> I will do a rollback on all the transactions when a PersistenceException
is
> thrown.
>
> I am really interested to know if anyone is using castor in a high volume
,
> mission critical application and the problems they faced if any and how
> solved it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Vijay
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [castor-user] Transaction locks and muti threaded access
>
> Will try my best to explain some of these issues in line.
>
> On 4/26/05, Vijayanand Sukumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>>We have been using castor-struts for about 2 years now and we are
>>having some issues related to the castor. we are at a stage where due
>>to performance issues we are thinking of moving away from castor.
>>
>>Any explanations/solutions for the given problems will be greatly
>>appreciated.
>>
>>1. When more than 1 thread access the same object, is multiple copies
>>of the same object is created or is the same instance of the object is
>>used across multiple
>> transactions.
>> If it the same object then wouldn't it affect performance as in
>>our case we have about a hundred users using the same record.
>
>
> Yes its the same object. But no you shouldn't see a performance hit
because
> its serving it out of the Cache. In fact, if the object is used enough,
and
> is always in the cache you would see a performance gain. This assumes most
> of your actions are read only, as several threads acting on the same
object
> and trying to do changes will cause problems.
>
>
>>
>>2. when a transaction fails , the locks on all the objects related to
>>that transaction are not released.
>> we have had instances where a
>> LockNotGrantedException: WriteTimeOut
>> occurs on a JDO object and the lock on the object is not released
>>until the server is re-started.
>> How can I release a lock on that object ?
>>
>> This problem kills all the mission critical applications where the
>>application cannot be restarted. Can this be overcome if an explicit
>>rollback is called ?
>
>
> If you have a PersistenceExcpetion during a transaction (between db.begin
> and db.commit) you should always do a rollback. This will release the
> objects and locks. If you dont do this my best guess as to what could
happen
> to your data is as good as yours.
>
>
>
>>3. when a commit fails and rollback is not explicitly called are all
>>locks on the objects in that transaction released ?
>
>
> They should be yes. If they are not my guess is that its a bug. You never
> mentioned what version of castor you are using.
>
>
>>
>>4. A lock is obtained on an object even if it stated in the mapping as
>>read-only. This slows down all the queries even if they are read-only
>>, how can I overcome this ?
>>
>
>
> Not sure about this one myself....never ran into any problems with it.
>
>
>>Based on my experience so far, I have a feeling that castor is not
>>suited for high-volume, mission critical applications.
>>
>
>
> All my apps are well used, but not considered high volume so my experince
in
> that area is limited. Although I'm pretty sure other people on the list
will
> share their experinces about this.
>
>
>>Has anyone used castor in a high-volume, mission critical application
>>and have success story?
>>
>>
>>ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Vijay
>>
>
>
> Hope this helps some. Anyone else want to throw something this way?
> -Nick
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